RJ Mickelson is a photo editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining The Chronicle, he was the night photo editor for The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Prior to his time abroad,...

RJ Mickelson is a photo editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining The Chronicle, he was the night photo editor for The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Prior to his time abroad, RJ worked in New York City for 10 years first as a freelance photographer and then in the photo department at amNewYork, a Newsday transit paper.